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Clement Yong Straits Times 5 Sep 19; SINGAPORE - An accident with a wild boar and a separate chain collision involving four vehicles caused a major jam along Mandai Road on Thursday morning (Sept 5). The accidents happened one after the other along the same stretch of Mandai Road towards the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) at 6.50am, causing traffic to slow for more than an hour during the peak period. Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that the wild boar had been killed by an oncoming vehicle, and the motorist left the scene after the accident. Shortly after the accident with the boar, a chain collision occurred involving four vehicles. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said a 20-year-old man was taken conscious to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. When Lianhe Wanbao arrived at the scene at 8.30am, the dead boar had been moved to the central divider but traffic was still congested. Officers later removed the body of the animal in a bag.

R.S.N.MURALI The Star 5 Sep 19; MELAKA: On top of the problem of immigrants making their way illegally into Melaka via the strait, the state is currently facing another trans-boundary issue � the invasion of wild boars from Indonesia. Melaka Agriculture, Agro-Based, Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative Committee chairman Norhizam Hassan Baktee said wild boars were excellent swimmers, but the state never expected them to cross the narrow Strait of Malacca from Sumatera in search of new habitats here. �The sea-borne invasion of wild boars leaves us in despair as the animal population is increasing in Melaka. �The mystical island of Pulau Besar here has witnessed widespread damage from the �migration' of dozens of these wild boars, including piglets, � he said on Thursday (Sept 5). Norhizam said fishermen reported seeing snouts in the dark along the coastal lines of Melaka almost every night. �Now Melaka is populated with wild boars from Indonesia, � he said. He said the number o...

Sharifah Mahsinah Abdullah New Straits Times 29 Aug 19; TUMPAT: Kelantan Customs Department today foiled an attempt to smuggle 4,000kg of wild boar carcasses, worth RM44,000, to Thailand. The wild boar carcasses, hidden in two boats, were seized in two separate operations here, said the department's director Mohd Rakbi Mat Saud. He said a man and a Thai national, both in their 50s, were detained in the operations. "In the first operation at Mentua illegal jetty, our officers seized 2,800kg of the wild boar carcasses from a boat there. "A man was arrested in the 2.40am operation," he told a press conference in Pengkalan Kubor today. He said the rest of the carcasses were seized in a second operation at Pengkalan Haji Rashid about 7.30am which saw the arrest of the second man. "Initial investigations showed the carcasses were brought to Kelantan from Terengganu and will be smuggled to Thailand via the illegal jetties. "There are high demand for the carcasses...